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General Software Discussion / Re: Mini-HowTo: Handling Cookie Privacy the Right Way

« Last post by justice on January 21, 2008, 06:01 AM »

Great howto, but is it really worth all this troubler? Tracking cookies get detected by most spyware software, and generally there's not that much personal information stored in the cookies other than the "login remember me" stuff that warrants this kind of approach? Or is the situation more severe than I thought it was?

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Living Room / Re: 64 Bit CPU - Is it worth it?

« Last post by justice on January 18, 2008, 06:41 PM »

64-32bit: servers yes, desktop no.

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Living Room / Re: Suffering over USB

« Last post by justice on January 18, 2008, 11:56 AM »

It depends on the usb enclosure that you're using, i'm having the same problems with a usb enclosure no solution though, i'd only consider real removable drives from now on. mine is powered btw

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General Software Discussion / Re: extraDNS: does it work?

« Last post by justice on January 18, 2008, 05:16 AM »

Theorycraft: Apparently your OS does the same thing so the improved speed will be either in a faster implementation or a longer caching time of the responses. If it was free I'd give it a try but not worth paying money for I'd say.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy photo editor

« Last post by justice on January 18, 2008, 03:33 AM »

Try Picasa (desktop) or Picnik (online). Definately among the top of the bunch.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Humanized Enso going free...

« Last post by justice on January 17, 2008, 09:20 AM »

just change the key to the right windows key then and use AHK to only send it when the capslock is touched 2x in rapid succession. the script for such a thing is floating around this forum. you can still use capslock that way.

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Living Room / Re: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?

« Last post by justice on January 17, 2008, 06:34 AM »

As it seem to happen only after you've been connected for a while.. I know that certain netgear routers have automatic blacklisting of ips that try and attack you. I had a netgear router that blacklisted one of my computers on the network because it found some of my connections suspicious. Try and disable and see DoS Attack
Detection (part of the firewall) if that works around the problem

Also check these pages if you haven't done so:
http://kbserver.netg...eb_files/N100772.asp

Do you run any software firewalls or Norton products that could be interfering?

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Skrommel's Software / Re: More false virus warnings in compiled ahk utilities #*(%&*(#*(&#(%

« Last post by justice on January 16, 2008, 07:28 AM »

maybe skrommel just needs to recompile his programs with a new version of ahk..

-mouser (January 15, 2008, 11:06 PM)

that indeed solves the problem, it's to do with the executable processor used in some versions of autohotkey that are also used to obfuscate some viruses, therefore avg assumes all software that uses it could be a virus. I've only ever noticed this with AVG btw.

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Living Room / Re: Dreamhost mistakenly bills customers for the entire year

« Last post by justice on January 16, 2008, 03:39 AM »

one is contained in the blog entry, for coders. It was really dumb to let the system accept a future date for billing, and not even flag it for confirmation as suspicious.

-tranglos (January 15, 2008, 06:21 PM)

I keep reading that. I'm not sure how the situation is in the Us, but in the UK many hosting companies bill per 12 months, which means you're paying 12 months in advance. If the software used is not specifically made for Dreamhost then it's actually very important that it can bill in advance.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Automatic port forwarding for servers, BitTorrent, etc

« Last post by justice on January 15, 2008, 06:42 PM »

so because this program runs on the local machine it only forwards these ports for the one IP address? that would make it very useful to install for friends forexample.

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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?

« Last post by justice on January 15, 2008, 10:43 AM »

Sorry for misspelling..

BugzScout FogBugz 6.0 Online Documentation

BugzScout is a simple API which allows you to send new bugs directly to FogBugz simply by submitting an HTTP post. This is a great way to automatically report bugs into your database from any website or application with access to the Internet.

BugzScout allows your program to report bugs back to your FogBugz server. For example, when your code is in beta, you can gather data about crashes and let users send you feature requests.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: File Search and Replace

« Last post by justice on January 15, 2008, 10:10 AM »

No problemo, just check the replace.txt logfile the first few times to make sure there are no bugs -- I tested it on newly created folderstructures and you're the second person to use it hehe.

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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?

« Last post by justice on January 15, 2008, 05:18 AM »

I recommended FogBugz at work after reading a lot about the philosophy behind their reports, how cases are escalated etc. We've been using it for over a year on licenses for 3 people and it's worked really well for me and I like how I can integrate BugzScout (to send bugreports directly from software or web forms into the system) and how people orientated it is. (for both support and end users).

Before this we weren't using anything.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: FilePropagator 1.0

« Last post by justice on January 15, 2008, 04:49 AM »

Try this:

FilePropagator 1.0
Replace all instances of a certain file in a folder with an updated copy. Select a root folder and the updated file that you want to replace all instances of, and confirm the operation. Search.txt and replace.txt logfiles are kept in the application folder. Autohotkey source provided.

edit: download removed by request of topicstarter as it has a serious bug in it that is now fixed.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: File Search and Replace

« Last post by justice on January 14, 2008, 04:34 PM »

It will be relatively easy to write an AHK script for this in an hour or so I reckon,
the AHK can execute a 'dir /b /s psexec.exe > result.txt' from a base folder, then read that result.txt in line by line and copy the psexec.exe from the AHK working dir to these destination paths. I won't have time tomorrow but later on during the week I could have a go if noone else has.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PDF to CSV

« Last post by justice on January 14, 2008, 10:43 AM »

If you can change to interactive pdfs they can actually sent the results themselves using small xml based datafiles., which you can process a lot easier and use in a database?

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Finished Programs / Re: AltTab Fingertips v1.3 - 14 Jan 08

« Last post by justice on January 14, 2008, 09:27 AM »

1) I was going to call it 1.21 and then changed my mind.. good attention to detail Will be corrected in a future version.
2) Last active windows are on top, older windows to the bottom. If you switch to firefox and then trigger ATF firefox should be on top of the list. That minimizes mouse movement. However I found myself looking for the right line as well (which is why I was wondering if I could add in program icons), what are your thoughts? I should settle on alphabetically?

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Finished Programs / Re: AltTab Fingertips v1.3 - 14 Jan 08

« Last post by justice on January 14, 2008, 08:39 AM »

Your wish is my command:

Changelog:
v1.3 - Recompile, shiny new icon, INI in the same folder as the script for portability!

If anyone can point me to a resource on how to show the application icons in the context menu that would be appreciated. It's something I'd like to add but will take me too long to do without example.

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Developer's Corner / WorkButler

« Last post by justice on January 14, 2008, 06:30 AM »

I have an idea for a todo list tool that can help you deciding what you should be working on. I'm not sure at this point if it will be worth my lunch hours to work on it - but the idea is worth developing, it might convince me or someone else to do it:

It's goal will be to have a simple interface: a list of tasks in suggested to-do order.
You can "skip" or "finish" the current task. Use skip if you worked on it but its not finished yet - I hate having to tell my todo list what I'm working on I can never keep that going.
You can enter a new task at the bottom or top of the list.
It will be influenced by MyLifeOrganised, various Helpdesk ticketing systems, GTD and Evaluweight.
Tasks might need more attention the longer you not looked at it. (auto-escalation - skip them if you dont want to work on them right now).
Every task has a next action field - this should be filled at any time so you can work on it asap. You can 'complete' the action, this does not nessecarily complete the task..
You can double click on the task to bring up the dialogue to add / edit / remove next actions - a simple list in working order.
The program will always be the one that suggests your next task - you choose to skip it or work on it until it's finished!

However, deciding what order the tasks should be in is the essential component. I don't like setting the priority directly because it's always guesswork (what makes something high priority over medium?). So clearly its important to note: deadline.
Perhaps there should be a general Project screen "build portfolio", "move house".

I'm hoping for you guys to discuss how to make the "prioritizing" as organic as possible, and to find out what factors are involved in prioritizing a task. Entering tasks should be as quick as possible, just the task + deadline - the priority will be assigned based on the project and weighted importance compared to the other projects.

I can think of factors such as: amount of tasks per project (bigger projects are more important?), better defined tasks compared to undefined tasks (is defining them more important than doing them?), deadlines obviously, but there must be others.

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Living Room / Re: Website colour: crisp and bright OR dull and sludgy

« Last post by justice on January 01, 2008, 10:52 AM »

re ps: If you have adobe  photoshop, run adobe gamma from your control panel to setup your system. otherwise: read along at http://www.normankor...ingfineprints1A.html

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Developer's Corner / Re: .Net Questions

« Last post by justice on December 21, 2007, 05:08 AM »

You should read http://en.wikipedia..../wiki/.NET_Framework where most of your questions are answered.
Much of the sourcecode for .NET base library is or will be made available.
.NET 1 runs on Win98 and above
.NET 2 runs on Win2000 and a bove
.net 3 runs on XP and above.

From its beginning, .NET has supported multiple programming languages, and at its core remains platform agnostic and standardized so that other vendors can reimplement it on other platforms (although Microsoft's implementation only targets Windows, Windows CE, and XBox based platforms).

I'll let you read up on the rest.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help with a name for my new NANY program

« Last post by justice on December 21, 2007, 03:20 AM »

DonationTasker

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help with a name for my new NANY program

« Last post by justice on December 20, 2007, 10:19 AM »

That Thing That Gets Me Stuff For Doing Things I Don't Want To Do

-cranioscopical (December 20, 2007, 09:53 AM)

Might work as soon as Google indexes this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Current IE8 build renders the ACID2 Test correctly!

« Last post by justice on December 20, 2007, 10:17 AM »

Browsers based on the current version of the Gecko layout engine, such as Firefox, Camino, and SeaMonkey, do not pass. However, Acid2 support is planned for Gecko 1.9, and so these browsers are expected to pass Acid2 once Gecko version 1.9 is finished. This includes Mozilla Firefox 3.0, which is currently in a beta release.

So seen 1bit it is a no, although the current version of IE7 does a worse job than the current version of Firefox.

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Living Room / Re: The Beatles Cover Stairway to Heaven

« Last post by justice on December 20, 2007, 05:59 AM »

let me try again showing you you can http://download yout... videos with keepvid